Please note, We will only sell via verified art broker / gallery from Ashland or Medford Oregon of your choice. And use an accredited escrow company to protect all parties. Or, if you are close, I can deliver in person. Shipping and crating TBD depending on best offer. Thanks for your interest in this RARE painting.

He worked for NASA, Smithonian Magazine and National Geographic Society.
His newer gallery original water colors sell between $3000 and $7800+, as you read the letter below, please see second to last line of letter...

A letter written to a former owner about the Bele'm Original Watercolor

Dear Mr.

"Thank you for sending along the print of an (original) watercolor done by me 38 years ago. (Now 59 years ago). The location of it is, Bele'm, Brazil, near the mouth of the Rio Par'a, part of the Amazon basin. It is easy to find on the map. I was on assignment for Varig Airlins, painting some of the major stops.
Bele'm was one of them. I also managed to do a few things for myself. I have another painting very similar to it that I kept as a reminder of that trip. Since this is not a subject that I would normally paint today, and since it was also done (38 years ago), now (59 years ago) when I was just starting out and working in a style somewhat different from the way I work today, it would not be of interest to my galleries. HOW IT EVER FOUND ITS WAY TO THE OPEN MARKET IS A MYSTERY TO ME. Thank you for your interest in the paining.

Sincerely yours,

Arthur Shilstone"

More Info:

Born in 1922. Enroll in Brooklyn's
Pratt Institute in 1941. WW
II VET

Shilstone's work appeared in more than three dozen publications, from Life, Smithsonian
and National Geographic to Sports Illustrated,
Gourmet and Field & Stream
; from book jackets and album covers for artists such as Billie Holiday to on-location assignments
for clients like Brazil's Varig Airlines.